Dreamways

This movie is a labor of love by Andy García. A golden story about Havana, the city of the title, set in 1958 and 1959, around the fall of Batista and the seizing of the crown by Fidel. It shows the life of a genteel family pulled apart by these political events. The main character winds up fleeing to New York. A nostalgic love song for a Cuba that was seen as the Good Life. This family was prosperous, orderly, and Good. Dinner occurred at precisely six every Sunday, the Noble Patriach at the head of the table. The women were beautiful, the men all handsome.  read more »

Eldora. Mid-day Saturday. We arrived up here last night around eleven, having dined at Billie and Jed’s in Boulder. F and I slept in until 10:00 this morning, a couple of sleepyheads. The past weeks feel like I am finding a new / old sense of center in terms of piano playing. It’s like I have space where I can remain, where I can be balanced, rather than off-kilter. It is like I don’t have to throw myself into whatever the piece is, and just be dragged along by some mysterious, inchoate process.  read more »